Mumbai: The Biden government recently released a comprehensive strategy involving several government institutions to break down barriers to US citizenship and promote naturalization (citizenship) for all who qualified.
After the executive command issued by US President Joe Biden, in early February, to restore trust in the Law Immigration system and improve the same, ‘naturalized working group’ (NWG) has been formed to facilitate our process of obtaining US citizenship.
This group consists of representatives of all major government institutions, such as the Ministry of Manpower (DOL), the Ministry of Justice (Doj), the Department of Security Homeland (DHS), the State Department (DOS) for several names.
The Interagency strategy for promoting naturalization, which captures this strategy has been released, by Biden administration.
“Being a citizen of the United States is a tremendous privilege,” said Alejandro N.
Mayorkas, Secretary of the Security Department of Homeland (DHS).
“New citizens, reinforced with the strengths and responsibilities of American citizenship, make our nation better.
This strategy will ensure that prospective citizens can pursue naturalization through a clear and coordinated process,” he added.
The three main pillars of this strategy include outreach, partnership and education.
Working groups will notify immigrants when they qualify for citizenship.
Government agencies will work with various institutions such as postal services or US customs to provide information relating to naturalization (citizenship).
Finally, the citizenship and education awareness campaign will be strengthened to include multilingual learning material, increasing outreach to targeted regions (such as rural) or groups (such as military families).
As reported by TI before, the Biden government has taken several steps to facilitate the naturalization process.
For example, complex and ideological citizenship tests introduced by former President Donald Trump were removed and the previous version was appointed again.us Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that he will celebrate independence day (July 4) this year by welcoming more than 9,400.
New citizens in 170 naturalized ceremonies between June 30 and July 7.
This ceremony shows our commitment to welcome immigrants, he said.
In the run-up of the US presidential election, the number of individuals who qualified eligible for US citizenship, which gave them the right to vote at first all time.
USCIS has 834,000 new residents who are naturalized in FY 2019 – eleven years in terms of new citizenship oath.
64,631 Indians have gained US citizenship during this fiscal year, compared with 52,194 during fiscal ending September 30, 2018.